May 2009

May 31, 2009

Would you agree that for most of us in what is left of the "West" (a term defining a civilization, culture, and heritage more than a geographic location), we have descended from voting for the lesser of two evils to voting for the evil of two lessers?

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." -- Max Lerner

May 30, 2009

What a week! I just received word that Barnes and Nobles booksellers in the Dallas area have listed co-autor Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution, #1 on their softcover non-fiction best-seller list. I am flattered that the book continues to do so well, having now been released in soft-cover in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland, and translated into Russian and Portuguese. There is truly a leadership revolution going on!

Also, I think it's appropriate to offer a reminder that 100% of the authors' income is being donated to the charitable organization All Grace Outreach. Please visit the website to check out all the good things they are doing! We can make a difference, in more ways than one!

Now, more than ever, leadership is needed in our countries. Freedom and its foundational principles are under attack from all sides. Never take for granted the liberties you have, and never underestimate how quickly they can be taken away if good people do nothing. One of the primary focuses of both the book and this blog, as well as my parnter Orrin Woodward's blog, is to awaken people to the perilous condition of freedom and to arm them with the leadership tools necessary to make an impact toward its resurrection and preservation. May we act before it's too late.

May 29, 2009

Wow! You three readers must be making quite an impact! I was informed just now that on Wednesday, May27 this blog was chosen for Blog of the Day on Technorati.com. You can read all about it here (scroll down when you get there).

Umm, I don't, umm, know what to say. I'd like to thank my Mom, my Dad, all the great folks at the Pennzoil-Fox-Cooper-Nippendonso-Nike racing team, my mechanic, my pit crew ------ oh, wait a minute, that's a different dream.

May 25, 2009

On this Memorial Day it is fitting and right that we should pause to remember and thank the millions of servicemen and women who have sacrificed, many ultimately, for the freedoms we enjoy. In honor to them, I want to share with you some quotes and thought development from author Alexander Boot, a Russian who came to America only to discover that the "free" country he had heard about no longer existed. His book, How the West Was Lost, was his attempt to explain what happened. I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in freedom and its resurrection.

"The rule of law presupposes a set of constitutional guarantees that are equally binding for the state and for the individual."

"Citizens no longer venerate laws because they know the state does not."

"And why should a servant of the state be concerned about private property if his master is in the business of extorting it?"

"Governments are no longer there to protect society and the individuals within it. They are out to protect the sacred cow of statism. . . . "

"While failing to protect us, [our modern government] laws also deny us the right to self-defense."

"In our time, the state has to have monopoly on violence [and power], so armed citizenry is off limits."

"That is why it is useless to quote reams of evidence, demonstrating that places that do not restrict gun ownership enjoy lower crime rates than those that do. Washington DC and New York City, where guns are outlawed, have two of the highest murder rates in the USA; Vermont and New Hampshire, with the highest gun ownership in the country, two of the lowest. Burglaries are almost unheard of in those places where most households are armed. Switzerland, with the heaviest-armed population in the world, has practically no crime, while Britain and Holland, with their strict gun laws, are crime-ridden. And in the first two years after a complete ban on handguns was introduced in Britain, gun crime went up by 50 percent and it is still growing."

I have long been confused how those who think guns are so dangerous and should be outlawed to protect peole are the same pundits who think it's okay to kill babies on one end of life's spectrum and euthenize old folks at the other. Boot has answered the conondrum for me: the state doesn't care about life, it cares about control. Guns are the biggest, and the last-ditch barrier a population holds against total tyranny by its government.

May 19, 2009

One of my favorite exercises on this blog is when you, my 3 loyal readers, participate in a collaboration. For this one I'd like to have you assist me in putting together a socialistic jargon de-coder. Let me give you a few examples below to get you started (with thanks to author Alexander Boot for the first three):

1. "Protecting the less fortunate" is code for (or really means) "expropriating the more fortunate."

May 18, 2009

The following is a brief introduction to the book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin, which describes the birth of the Federal Reserve under shrouded circumstances. It is a classic story of a big-money cartel forming with the veil of "legitimacy" of the United States government. If you've ever wondered, economically speaking, "How'd we get here?" this video may take you on the road to the answer.

May 15, 2009

One has to be careful when aligning with a label. The following is something I scribbled into the back of a history book I was reading at a moment of inspiration. I post it for you here in order to solicit your input on the question asked at the end. I look forward to reading your responses.

"I am not a Democrat because they stand for too many causes against God and His laws,

I am not a Republican (although I was once registered as one) because they are controlled by big monied interests which foster cartels and stifle opportunity,

I am not a Libertarian because the concept of Liberty burns too quickly out of control if taken as a quality by itself.

So . . . I guess I don't know what I am.

It would be poetic and seemingly patriotic to state that I am simply an American, implying somehow that the term itself is enough to produce clarity.